Trauma

A Place for Starr: A Story of Hope for Children Experiencing Family ViolenceAuthor: text by Howard Schor; Illustrated by Mary Kilpatrick

Keywords: domestic violence, trauma, abuse, shelter

Summary:
A Place for Starr is a children’s book written in poem form and is an easy to read and well-done account of one family’s experience with domestic violence. The illustrations are beautiful and it takes a difficult topic and appropriately touches on the emotions and consequences of experiencing domestic violence. At the end of the book, the family leaves the home and goes to a shelter to get away from the abuser, so it ends on a positive note.

Audience: child, adolescent

Warnings: This book contains is about domestic violence, an inherently terrifying theme, but it explains it without any gratuitous drama and it is appropriate and well-written.